How To Use Succor In A Sentence
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Knowing this neighbourhood as I do, I have sent out boy scouts armed with catapults and homing pigeons to locate and succour your undoubtedly acned messenger, who has, I suspect, been lured into a den serving potent drinks and fevered women who have taken his mind off his job and transferred it to his own gratification.
Archive 2007-02-01
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That is likely to give succour to all those who loathe liberal values and democracy.
Times, Sunday Times
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The scene where she finds succour in tinted glasses when her eyesight has been shot away is masterly.
Times, Sunday Times
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They were succoured from the fire by the rescue helicopter.
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This plant, the succory of former days, is greatly esteemed by the French, by whom it is known as barbe de capucin.
The Art of Living in Australia
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These newcomers earned their living as small businessmen, religious teachers or labourers and were later to provide succour and support for the third wave of Indonesian migration to Thailand.
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The manna that succored the Israelites in the wilderness was gathered in baskets, which thus formed part of a divine act of national salvation.
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Indeed, this be of that which is incumbent on us, O King, and I say, ‘Praised be Allah!’ in that He hath guerdoned thee with His gifts and vouchsafed thee of His mercy, the welfare of the realm; and hath succoured thee and ourselves, on condition that we increase in gratitude to Him; and all this no otherwise than by thine existence!
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Violet leaves, wild tansie, succory-roots, large mace, raisins, and damask prunes boil'd with a chicken and a crust of bread.
The accomplisht cook or, The art & mystery of cookery
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Thérèse also bolstered the priesthood, succoring and strengthening God's ministers through prayer and friendship.
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The fixture list is unlikely to provide much succour either.
Times, Sunday Times
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Mother Teresa, for example, identified as much as she could with India's Hindus, adopting the sari as the habit for her order of nuns, and she showed her commitment to Christ by succoring the dying in the streets of Calcutta.
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It is now on its knees, offering succour and plugs to vain mediocrities.
Times, Sunday Times
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But while Joe has beaten him before, plentifully, Kerewin has only been kind and repeatedly succored him with food.
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That is likely to give succour to all those who loathe liberal values and democracy.
Times, Sunday Times
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He still continued, however, cautiously to progress along the road on which be was benighted, and at length the twinkling of a distant light raised some hope of succour in his heart.
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There died also messieur Nastasy de Sancta Camilla aforenamed, hauing two hundred men vnder him of the lord great masters succours.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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They turned up quickly at the explosion site and helped crucially in succouring victims and in maintaining the integrity for forensic investigatory purposes of that scene of rare and serious crime.
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Hawker's published version accords him a heroic role in retrieving and burying all the Caledonia's dead and succouring her one survivor.
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Alfaqui thought that happy man was his dole now that the people had committed themselves to his guidage, and he went to Abeniaf and communed with him, and their accord was to give up all hope of succour.
Chronicle of the Cid
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Scoltzii would fain have them use all summer the condite flowers of succory, strawberry water, roses
Anatomy of Melancholy
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Her organization gave succour and strength to those who had been emotionally damaged.
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But whoever assumes this role, their supporters can at least derive succour from the infinite spirit of the Highlanders.
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How can an artistic paean to freedom provide succour to those who suppress freedom?
Times, Sunday Times
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Others argue that succoring the uncompetitive is a waste of time and resources.
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These bodies are giving succour and support to the British forces in Ireland and as such they are collaborators.
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They turned up quickly at the explosion site and helped crucially in succouring victims and in maintaining the integrity for forensic investigatory purposes of that scene of rare and serious crime.
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Nevertheless, the US contribution to the pacification and democratisation of Western Europe, and to a lesser extent the Pacific Rim, shows what can be done when local determination is succoured by superpower resources.
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The hostess, seeing her husband re-enter into contentions and brabbles, raised a new cry, whose burden was borne by her daughter and Maritornes, asking succour of Heaven and those that were present.
The Fourth Book. XVIII. Wherein Are Decided the Controversies of the Helmet of Mambrino and of the Pannel, with Other Strange and Most True Adventures
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The rest of the story is then structured around God's provision of succour and support for him.
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How can an artistic paean to freedom provide succour to those who suppress freedom?
Times, Sunday Times
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But love of another person is not enough; there must be some outside standard by which we can determine what we should do to succor that person.
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The point is that al-Qaeda does not gain succor just from what Cullison calls "Arab resentment against the United States"; it also profits from the West's agonizing over the legally — not to say morally — dubious methods used to combat international terrorism, some of which clearly have a certain popular appeal, particularly in the United States.
Letters to the Editor
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Maid permission to receive the sacrament if she would do so in a woman's dress: and how after pleading that she might be allowed that privilege as she was, in her male costume, and with a pathetic statement that she would have yielded if she could, but that it was impossible -- she finally refused; and was so left in her prison to pass that sacred day unsuccoured and alone.
Jeanne D'Arc: her life and death
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The bond was strengthened because individuals persecuted by the authorities could seek succor and solace from the Church.
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“Was ever woman in a strait so fearful!” exclaimed the Lady of Lochleven — “At least, thou rash boy, beware that no one tastes the food, but especially the jar of succory-water.”
The Abbot
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I watched its mouthpart feelers rapidly go to work on the succour and it was quickly rejuvenated.
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For much joy and indeed fun has been invested in improving this cherished local institution, a place which provides succour and comfort to those in their time of greatest need.
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It is true that all NGOs, except those exclusively concerned with succour and relief, are about change.
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He who in adversity would have succor, let him be generous while he rests secure.
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The autumn leaves have been composting on the pavements ready to succour the soon-to-be emerging weed seedlings.
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His role, as he sees it, is simple: he's there to ease our passing, to provide momentary succour to our loved ones in a time of grief.
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He felt helpless because he could not do anything to save innocent lives and bring succour to them.
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But I suspect, some days, that beauty helps protect the spirit of mankind, swaddle it and succor it, so that we might survive.
CONFESSIONS OF AN UGLY STEPSISTER
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They provide psychological succor and social support, enabling them to endure the tragic elements of the human condition and to overcome the fragility of human life in the scheme of things.
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Moreouer they had no forren prince to intercept or molest them, but their owne Townes, Islands and maine lands to succour them.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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But love of another person is not enough; there must be some outside standard by which we can determine what we should do to succor that person.
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The Entire City is named after a Max Ernst painting, and Walling casts her metropolis as both comfort and threat; the safeness and succor of Concrete Mother becomes suffocating claustrophobia on Nest, with its suspense-filled percussion, and the war-like rush of the eponymous track becomes stark isolation on Changelings.
Gazelle Twin: The Entire City – review
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Helicopters fly in appalling weather to succour shipwrecked mariners.
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The chicory plant can be found growing in areas where nothing else will and it shoots roots that run deep in the earth - probably how it acquired the name succory, stemming from the Latin word ‘to run under’.
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Jewish tradition provided our Prophet with sanctuary and succour.
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This is the succory (Cichorium Intybus of the botanists), described by Emerson as ‘succory to match the sky.’
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However, their every utterance is designed to inflame fears and tensions and give succour to the fascists.
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To acquire the friendship of their emirs, the two factions vied with each other in baseness and profusion: the dexterity of Cantacuzene obtained the preference: but the succor and victory were dearly purchased by the marriage of his daughter with an infidel, the captivity of many thousand Christians, and the passage of the Ottomans into Europe, the last and fatal stroke in the fall of the Roman empire.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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If we cherish these Christianlike views, we should not judge so harshly of the poor, of whom it is no less faulty to judge, than of the rich; and in their poverty we should find as powerful motives for loving Jesus Christ, as for affording the succor they require.
The Life and Legends of Saint Francis of Assisi
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For Tancred and Poussin alike, the literal wounds of passion, whether martial or venereal, have been succored by true charity and enduring love.
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Members of other orders may, if they choose, gallop across the tundra to succour outcast Siberian lepers, or go white-water rafting in Katmandu, but a Benedictine takes vows of poverty, chastity, and stability.
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The rest of the story is then structured around God's provision of succour and support for him.
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But if past results are encouraging for the French, the political situation provides no succour.
Times, Sunday Times
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But it is difficult to see whether anyone still emotionally invested in Courtney Love's raddled muse will be able to take succour from them at the end of such a misfiring album.
Hole: Nobody's Daughter
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Let them view with him the piles of unsuccoured wounded on the breach of Badajoz, and hear the shrieks and groans of men dying in helpless agony, without a friendly hand to prop their head, or a drop of water to cool their fevered lips.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847
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An interiorly lit cottage, warm & inviting, offers succor to us all.
Most Expensive Living Artist - Lucian Freud
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The mayor, fumbling for words of succor at a press conference, had suggested that God's will was somehow behind those who got out alive.
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It's a succour to those seeking shelter from the blunt drama of the economy, a role that bel canto has taken on before.
Times, Sunday Times
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Victims' families had no protection, no succour or support.
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First, while in Gujarat, I met many individuals who remain anonymous, who were so distressed by what had happened that they worked tirelessly round the clock to help provide succour.
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In pitting against himself those who had so powerfully succoured him in his misfortune, Condé ought at least to have drawn closer to the Court and had a serious understanding with the Queen; but he tergiversated, and at the end of some months of that wavering policy, he found himself standing unmasked between the Court and the Fronde, both equally discontented with him, repeating and exaggerating the blunder committed by Mazarin.
Political Women (Vol. 1 of 2)
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These newcomers earned their living as small businessmen, religious teachers or labourers and were later to provide succour and support for the third wave of Indonesian migration to Thailand.
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The Phliasians escorted their retreating foes a little way up the steep, and then turning off dashed along the road beside the walls, making for the Pellenians and those with them; whereupon the Theban, perceiving the haste of the Phliasians, began racing with his infantry to outspeed them and bring succour to the Pellenians.
Hellenica
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Thérèse also bolstered the priesthood, succoring and strengthening God's ministers through prayer and friendship.
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My objectives are to find out what I can and to dispense succour to other poor benighted folk.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is not acceptable for a Nato member to offer succour to our enemies.
Times, Sunday Times
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Mr. Roy, who has been a staunch supporter of Mr. Deo in providing succour to Parkinson's victims, translated the speech for the audience.
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If you think the party be in any heat, put in violet leaves and succory.
The accomplisht cook or, The art & mystery of cookery
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But lest anyone think I give succour to the nationalists by talk of national futures, let there be no such fatuous interpretation.
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Then two mighty heroes, the twin brothers Tyrion and Teclis, arose to succour the realm and repel the invasion.
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holpen" denotes properly, to take hold of one, to help him up when he is in danger of falling, and here means that God had succoured his people when they were feeble, and were in danger of falling or being overthrown.
Barnes New Testament Notes
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Helleboratus major and minor in Quercetan, and Syrupus Genistae for hypochondriacal melancholy in the same author, compound syrup of succory, of fumitory, polypody, &c.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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Both the Mesoamerican and Christian pantheon of gods and saints, mirrors of contemporary anxieties, were created to appeal for divine succor from a vast assortment of afflictions.
Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico
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The Government of the day said ‘Let us succour these people, for their condition is piteous, and besides they are almost as good as us’.
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Anno 1270, at [6602] Magdeburg in Germany, a Jew fell into a privy upon a Saturday, and without help could not possibly get out; he called to his fellows for succour, but they denied it, because it was their Sabbath, non licebat opus manuum exercere; the bishop hearing of it, the next day forbade him to be pulled out, because it was our Sunday.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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He may have created a garden to give spiritual succour but, so the story goes, he himself displayed all too human frailties by taking to drink and betting on the gee-gees.
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Her organization gave succour and strength to those who had been emotionally damaged.
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Joyful was the recognition; for those who had come to their succour were the party from whom they had separated, who had luckily gained the shore before them.
Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 (of 2)
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When you are half way up Kilimanjaro and your lungs are close to bursting as you seek to drag in even a wisp of the thin air, you are willing to seek anywhere for help and succour and appeals to god are not uncommon.
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That will not happen if this week's elections provide any succour for him.
Times, Sunday Times
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Members of other orders may, if they choose, gallop across the tundra to succour outcast Siberian lepers, or go white-water rafting in Katmandu, but a Benedictine takes vows of poverty, chastity, and stability.
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In short, the manager has to find succour from shoestrings, a quality that Scott has demonstrated in the past.
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Western churches have a clear responsibility to provide succour and support for the Iraqi church in this time of trauma.
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The manna that succored the Israelites in the wilderness was gathered in baskets, which thus formed part of a divine act of national salvation.
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In fact, here's what two African American residents wrote to a Boston abolitionist not long after the day in 1846 when Alexandrians (white, male) voted to approve the return of their city to Virginia, an act called retrocession: "[The] poor colored people of this city ... were standing in rows on either side of the Court House, and, as the votes were announced every quarter of an hour, the suppressed wailings and lamentations of the people of color were constantly ascending to God for help and succor, in this the hour of their need.
The slave trade and Alexandria's withdrawal from D.C.
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One is the valley to which we are now bending our steps, which nestles not far from the foot of the great mountain men call the St. Bernard; the other is at the hospice upon the Great St. Bernard itself, where is a colony of devout and kindly monks, who give their succour to travellers of every nationality and creed, and where a safe shelter may always be found.
Tom Tufton's Travels
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When our dogs get ill, we have to fit visits to the vet and bouts of succour around the working day.
Times, Sunday Times
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The harbour provided safety and succour to seafarers over the centuries.
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With their whimsical ancient names such as corncockle, mousetail, fluellen, fumitory, downy hemp-nettle and lamb's succory, they have music as well as colour.
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The manna that succored the Israelites in the wilderness was gathered in baskets, which thus formed part of a divine act of national salvation.
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The last battering engines are philters, amulets, spells, charms, images, and such unlawful means: if they cannot prevail of themselves by the help of bawds, panders, and their adherents, they will fly for succour to the devil himself.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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He fully shares the hospital's concept of providing succour and medical help to the underprivileged section of our society.
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Or are we, as a people, so used to being helped and succoured that it all seems normal and none out of the ordinary?
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She is the first who has redeemed the name of sutler from the suspicion of worthlessness, mercenary baseness and plunder, and I trust that England will not forget the one who nursed her sick and who sought out her wounded to aid and succor them and who performed the last office for some of her illustrious dead.
World’s Great Men of Color
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Now it is in vain to talk of contractions, of spasms, of turgescence; all this evidently fails to reach the case of the St. - Médard _succors_.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 77, March, 1864
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God, and it creates a prejudice, between them and those who really need their succour, which is almost unsurmountable.
Over the Fireside with Silent Friends
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Baron de Viomenil, to ask whether he did not require some succour from the Americans; ~ [10] but the French were not long in taking possession also of the other redoubt, and that success decided soon after the capitulation of Lord Cornwallis, (19th October, 1781.)
Memoirs, Correspondence and Manuscripts of General Lafayette
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Music is the all time succour, as it helps in healing old wounds and hostilities.
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The scene where she finds succour in tinted glasses when her eyesight has been shot away is masterly.
Times, Sunday Times
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Children mounted over the dead bodies of their parents to raise themselves to the fountain's brim; parents stared vacantly at the corpses of their children alternately floating and sinking in the water, into which they had fallen unsuccoured and unmourned.
Antonina
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As the firing was still continued on the French side, Lafayette sent an aide-de-camp to the Baron de Viomenil, to ask whether he did not require some succour from the Americans; ~ [10] but the French were not long in taking possession also of the other redoubt, and that success decided soon after the capitulation of Lord Cornwallis, (19th October, 1781.)
Memoirs Correspondence and Manuscripts of General Lafayette
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The bishops, instead of promising succor or suggesting comfort, recapitulated to him all the instances of his maleadministration, and advised him thenceforwards to follow more salutary counsel.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part F. From Charles II. to James II.
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Thailand has long called travelers from around the globe to take spiritual succour and karmic rest.
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If Hannah had not been in Spain she would have got in touch with her and begged for her help, and it struck Rue, as she sat in a wicker chair in the conservatory wondering what on earth had happened to her old strength and energy, that although she had many, many acquaintances, there was no one she could actually turn to for the kind of succour Neil had given her.
So Close and No Closer
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I continued: -- This poor wretch is deserted, dying, succourless; in these unhappy times, God knows how soon any or all of us may be in like want.
II.7
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A picture of Our Lady of Perpetual Succour, with a candle burning underneath, brings the real difference to the show.
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We also know what cabinet ministers promised to succor them in their hour of need.
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The Government of the day said ‘Let us succour these people, for their condition is piteous, and besides they are almost as good as us’.
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He who in adversity would have succor, let him be generous while he rests secure.
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His aim was to bring succour to similar sufferers but he quickly gained followers all around the world, with his blog having more than three million hits.
Times, Sunday Times
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How can an artistic paean to freedom provide succour to those who suppress freedom?
Times, Sunday Times
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The scene where she finds succour in tinted glasses when her eyesight has been shot away is masterly.
Times, Sunday Times
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They provide psychological succor and social support, enabling them to endure the tragic elements of the human condition and to overcome the fragility of human life in the scheme of things.
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In the last week, the Earth had been generous in sending forth dock and succory and starwort and lamb's quarters.
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He was solitary with his unseen enemy, and if the room had been full of ministering angels he would still have been alone and unsuccoured.
Clayhanger
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First, while in Gujarat, I met many individuals who remain anonymous, who were so distressed by what had happened that they worked tirelessly round the clock to help provide succour.
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The fixture list is unlikely to provide much succour either.
Times, Sunday Times
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El presidente wasn't the only tinhorn dictator to find succor in the U.S. when Jimmy Carter was toasting his friend Ferdinand Marcos, who had not yet been deposed.
Hillary Has More Campaign Cash On Hand Than All GOP Candidates – Combined!
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Damaged the opposite person who harm can acquire the succour through the law path.
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Others argue that succoring the uncompetitive is a waste of time and resources.
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For much joy and indeed fun has been invested in improving this cherished local institution, a place which provides succour and comfort to those in their time of greatest need.
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The figures will provide succour for economists after last week's shock manufacturing figures for February.
Times, Sunday Times
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His aim was to bring succour to similar sufferers but he quickly gained followers all around the world, with his blog having more than three million hits.
Times, Sunday Times
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There must be action and succor from the well-off parts of the world for the poorer sections, just as one part of our country would rally to the aid of another section in time of national disaster, such as, say, some great flood or an earthquake.
The Puzzling Years Ahead
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Gaylord Perry succored his Hall of Fame career by often calling upon an illegal spitball pitch.
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But in revenge for this the sons of the king, when Parasurama was away, returned to the hermitage and slew the pious and unresisting sage Jamadagni, who called fruitlessly for succour on his valiant son.
The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala
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As well as providing succour for those troubled by the existential dilemma, religion, or at least a primitive spirituality, would have played another important role as human societies developed.
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They´ll all be roving the land looking for chances to make the rich poor, to remedy the irremediable, to succor the unsuccorable, to unscramble the unscrambleable, to dephlogisticate the undephlogisticable, "because they understand that" votes are collared under democracy, not by talking sense but by talking nonsense.
American Chronicle
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He who in adversity would have succor, let him be generous while he rests secure.
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For Maud Martha, the house serves dual roles as the site of both her distress and her succor.
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All that said, with the Cold War over and the conservative movement tending to take most of its emotional succor from a blend of militarism and homophobia these days, I hope that modern liberals and libertarians can find ways to cooperate on some of these economic issues where our interests may overlap.
Matthew Yglesias » Small-Government Egalitarianism
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It was like a lion's paw pressing down on my throat, but at the same time the lion succored me, licking my young face.
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A major initiative aimed at supporting and succouring rural Yorkshire communities devastated by foot-and-mouth is to be launched by the Church of England.
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And when Tim Hagan, with straight left for the hundredth time to bleeding nose and mangled mouth, and with ever reiterant right hook to stomach, had him dazed and reeling, the breath whistling and sobbing through his lacerated lips — was no time for succor from palaces and bank accounts.
CHAPTER IV
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That will not happen if this week's elections provide any succour for him.
Times, Sunday Times
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The field hospital should be for the soldier a place of refuge, a concrete manifestation of the extent to which the country will go to succor those who have served.
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The world being what it is, it would not surprise me to learn that he had not been immediately succored.
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This plant, the succory of former days, is greatly esteemed by the French, by whom it is known as barbe de capucin.
The Art of Living in Australia
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But while Joe has beaten him before, plentifully, Kerewin has only been kind and repeatedly succored him with food.
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After the arriuall of the which succour, the fortification of the City went more diligently forward of all hands, then it did before, the whole garison, the Grecian Citizens inhabiting the
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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He who in adversity would have succor, let him be generous while he rests secure.
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He who in adversity would have succor, let him be generous while he rests secure.
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He appeared to be advising, helping, succouring the woman.
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I wondered if from one of those dark windows she were looking forth anxiously for succour, and I called the alchemist to my side and bade him send up a fire balloon as a signal that help was at hand.
Romance of Roman Villas (The Renaissance)
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The autumn leaves have been composting on the pavements ready to succour the soon-to-be emerging weed seedlings.
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But I suspect, some days, that beauty helps protect the spirit of mankind, swaddle it and succor it, so that we might survive.
CONFESSIONS OF AN UGLY STEPSISTER
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I bugled him and boosted him and succored him and damn near sainted him.
Brian Joseph Davis: A Horrifying Satire of Hollywood Returns
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This they did with entire diligence and he bade them also handsel all who were present with large gifts and dismiss them each to his country with honour and renown; he also charged his governors to rule the people with justice and enjoined them to be tender to the poor as well as to the rich and bade succour them from the treasury, according to their several degrees.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Why do we give succour - and money - to those who would destroy what we stand for?
Times, Sunday Times
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They'll all be roving the land looking for chances to make the rich poor, to remedy the irremediable, to succor the unsuccorable, to unscramble the unscrambleable, to dephlogisticate the undephlogisticable, "because they understand that" votes are collared under democracy, not by talking sense but by talking nonsense.
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Turcoplier of England, chiefe captaine of the succours of the sayd posterne of England, a valiant man and hardy: and in holding of it he was slaine with the stroke of a hand-gunne, which was great damage.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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It was like a lion's paw pressing down on my throat, but at the same time the lion succored me, licking my young face.
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Since 1744, when I left Rome, I have run many risks, encountered many perils, and endured many vicissitudes of fortune, unaided by those from whom I had the right to expect assistance, unsuccoured even by My Father.
Pickle the Spy; Or, the Incognito of Prince Charles
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It gives succour, comfort and aid to the perpetrators of evil and insults the good, the innocent and all the victims of crime.
The Sun
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Ostracized by society and living in ghettos, eunuchs, popularly known as ‘hijras’ have nowhere to go but their own peers for shelter and succour.
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The condition of the common people (and belike, in great part, of the middle class also) was yet more pitiable to behold, for that these, for the most part retained by hope [11] or poverty in their houses and abiding in their own quarters, sickened by the thousand daily and being altogether untended and unsuccoured, died well nigh all without recourse.
The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio
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But if past results are encouraging for the French, the political situation provides no succour.
Times, Sunday Times
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We are aware that through a time of increasing food deprivation a number of individual churches have run much needed feeding schemes, and provided succour and support for AIDS victims.
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At every level of society a person looks to family and kin for both social identity and succor.
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But what of the more serious accusation - that he is, if not a parlour anti-Semite, certainly a writer who has given them succour?
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Victims' families had no protection, no succour or support.
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Mother Teresa, for example, identified as much as she could with India's Hindus, adopting the sari as the habit for her order of nuns, and she showed her commitment to Christ by succoring the dying in the streets of Calcutta.
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How can an artistic paean to freedom provide succour to those who suppress freedom?
Times, Sunday Times
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It was evident in July that the brig would never be freed from the ice, and in this critical situation, Kane, taking five men in a whaleboat, attempted to reach Beechy Island, several hundred miles to the southwest, whence he expected to obtain succor from the English searching squadron.
Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 6 of 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History
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The field hospital should be for the soldier a place of refuge, a concrete manifestation of the extent to which the country will go to succor those who have served.
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It has latterly become the widening festival of universal brotherhood with succor for all need and nighness to all suffering; of good will warring against ill will and of peace warring upon war.
Bride of the Mistletoe
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He fully shares the hospital's concept of providing succour and medical help to the underprivileged section of our society.
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The compulsion to seek succor, support, surcease from his endeavors, in his love's arms.
A RAKE'S VOW
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You need a network of supporters and sympathisers prepared to hide and give succour, financial and otherwise for the cause.
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For instance, Franciscus de Paula succored an anchylosed joint by the energetic surgery of three dried figs which he gave the suffering patient to eat.
Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing
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We also know what cabinet ministers promised to succor them in their hour of need.
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Finding it hopeless longer to look for succour or common humanity from the deceitful and infatuated court of Sicily, which persisted in prohibiting by sanguinary edicts the exportation of supplies, at his own risk, he sent his first lieutenant to the port of Girgenti, with orders to seize and bring with him to Malta the ships which were there lying laden with corn; of the numbers of which he had received accurate information.
The Life of Horatio Lord Nelson
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It was said of him that he had never turned a poor man away unsuccoured, nor bowed his head before a strong man, nor drawn his sword without cause, nor refused peace to him who prayed it.
Eric Brighteyes
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The harbour provided safety and succour to seafarers over the centuries.
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Perhaps, no human being would want to demean himself by seeking succour along the streets and from strangers.
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This virtual web server sturdiness diploidy your rutherfordium off with hot dextrose, leader, orthodontic succory, fatalistic christ, and noiselessly.
Rational Review
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For example, the opinion that succory is superior to coffee, though supported by Drs. Howison and
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 546, May 12, 1832
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Crato (consil. 21. lib. 2) speaks against all herbs and worts, except bugloss, fennel, parsley, dill, bawm, succory.
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In an attack on the French lines the Allies were beaten off with loss, and the brave commander was left again unsuccoured in the face of his powerful assailant.
A Popular History of Ireland : from the Earliest Period to the Emancipation of the Catholics - Volume 2
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Western churches have a clear responsibility to provide succour and support for the Iraqi church in this time of trauma.
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The figures will provide succour for economists after last week's shock manufacturing figures for February.
Times, Sunday Times
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For the time being, that status will have a substantial cheque attached to it, and it will take many decades for the Montenegrins to learn the reality of the construct they join – if they are allowed in – but the "colleagues" will no doubt take succour from the fact that yet another nation is rushing, lemming-like into the fold.
A vote for serfdom?
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Do we have to face the shame of the rest of the world organising a charity campaign to bring succour to the starving of Spain?
DOVES OF WAR: Four Women of Spain
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The whole of the edict bears the character of precipitation, of excitement, (entrainement,) rather than of deliberate reflection — the extent of the promises, the indefiniteness of the means, of the conditions, and of the time during which the parents might have a right to the succor of the state.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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On Hampstead Heath the Corporation of London is considering the closure of the open-air bathing ponds which have succoured swimmers, amputees and mild exhibitionists since the 1860s.
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For Maud Martha, the house serves dual roles as the site of both her distress and her succor.
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Long before the ladder arrived that was to succor him, he became the sworn ally of Melons, and, I regret to say, incited by the same audacious boy, "chaffed" his own flesh and blood below him.
The Wit and Humor of America, Volume I. (of X.)
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When Sir Launcelot saw Sir Palomides kneel he lightly took him up and said thus: Wit thou well, Sir Palomides, I and any knight in this land, of worship ought of very right succour and rescue so noble a knight as ye are proved and renowned, throughout all this realm endlong and overthwart.
Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table
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Some occupations seem to go out of their way to discourage mutual aid and succour.
Coping with Stress at Work
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The wild plant was also called succory (or ‘blue succory’ because it has blue flowers) in England in the past.
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It is true that all NGOs, except those exclusively concerned with succour and relief, are about change.
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Gods of old days, discrowned, disjected, and treated as rubbish, hark to the latest way of the folk whose fathers you succored!
Figures of Earth
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At length one of his own tenantry, coming by, took him into Charlotte Town in a cart, but was obliged shortly afterwards to leave the island, to escape from the vengeance which would have overtaken the succourer of a tyrant.
The Englishwoman in America
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Music is the all time succour, as it helps in healing old wounds and hostilities.
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Restructuring the existing convertible bonds allows the Educomp to push out redemption date and offer near-term succor to its weakening balance sheet.
Educomp to Recast Foreign Convertible Bonds
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Having no genuine party, the Whigs seek for succour from the Irish papists; Lord John Russell, however, is only imitating Pym under the same circumstances.
Sketches
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For in their succorless empty-handedness, they, in the heathenish sharked waters, and by the beaches of unrecorded, javelin islands, battled with virgin wonders and terrors that Cooke with all his marines and muskets would not have willingly dared.
Moby Dick; or the Whale
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Some among them began to pray, not for succor, but final prayers, beseeching forgiveness for sins committed.
AMAGANSETT
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We also know what cabinet ministers promised to succor them in their hour of need.
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The scene where she finds succour in tinted glasses when her eyesight has been shot away is masterly.
Times, Sunday Times
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When you are half way up Kilimanjaro and your lungs are close to bursting as you seek to drag in even a wisp of the thin air, you are willing to seek anywhere for help and succour and appeals to god are not uncommon.
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Englishmen followed, yet impeached with the desart grounds and barren countrie, thorough which they must passe, as our felles and craggie mounteins, from hill to dale, from marish to wood, from naught to woorsse (as Hall saith) without vittels or succour, the king was of force constrained to retire with his armie, and returne againe to
Chronicles (3 of 6): Historie of England (1 of 9) Henrie IV
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He who in adversity would have succor, let him be generous while he rests secure.
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He who in adversity would have succor, let him be generous while he rests secure.
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It also dwells on the doctor-patient relationship, tragic situations in the life of patients and how as a medical professional with great concern for his fellow beings, he has tried to bring relief and succour to them.
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He appeared to be advising, helping, succouring the woman.
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Any Haitian or Bahamian who harbours, employs, abets, or succors illegals, gets a fine and jail.
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Nevertheless, the US contribution to the pacification and democratisation of Western Europe, and to a lesser extent the Pacific Rim, shows what can be done when local determination is succoured by superpower resources.
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The world being what it is, it would not surprise me to learn that he had not been immediately succored.
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The whole of the edict bears the character of precipitation, of excitement, (entrainement,) rather than of deliberate reflection -- the extent of the promises, the indefiniteness of the means, of the conditions, and of the time during which the parents might have a right to the succor of the state.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1
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Her organization gave succour and strength to those who had been emotionally damaged.
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So sometimes the traveler is asked whence will come their succor.
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The Romans then, flying to the emperor, desired his aid and succour; but he, belike to pleasure the pope, gathering an army, went rather against the Romans.
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Whither did he vanish, and if it was true that she succeeded in hiding him in some secret hole, what chance was there that he could have lived on without food and unsuccoured?
Pearl-Maiden
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Or are we, as a people, so used to being helped and succoured that it all seems normal and none out of the ordinary?
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Once again, their performance offered little succour.
Times, Sunday Times
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You need a network of supporters and sympathisers prepared to hide and give succour, financial and otherwise for the cause.
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The compulsion to seek succor, support, surcease from his endeavors, in his love's arms.
A RAKE'S VOW
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The army of our liege lord is now in the Lothians, passing through them under the appellation of succors for the regent from the Hebrides!
The Scottish Chiefs
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These bodies are giving succour and support to the British forces in Ireland and as such they are collaborators.
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He who in adversity would have succor, let him be generous while he rests secure.
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She is a succour and support to him but is also a considerable thinker in her own right.
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The very interesting article from which the quotation has just been made seems to think the term "deaconess" a misnomer for the Kaiserswerth deaconess, as she belongs to a community, whereas the deaconess of the early Church was attached to a congregation and belonged to a single church as an officer; but it may well be questioned whether the class of duties assigned to the deaconess of the early Church and of modern times alike, that is, the nursing of the sick, the care of the infirm in body and mind, the succoring of the unfortunate, and the education of children, are not the main characteristics of the office of a deaconess, while the fact of her connection with a number of like-minded women in community life is merely an external feature of the office as it has developed in the nineteenth century.
Deaconesses in Europe and their Lessons for America
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But I, donzel, wear the spurs of knighthood, and to succour the distressed is a duty my oath will not let me swerve from.
The Last of the Barons — Complete
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Some among them began to pray, not for succor, but final prayers, beseeching forgiveness for sins committed.
AMAGANSETT
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Then two mighty heroes, the twin brothers Tyrion and Teclis, arose to succour the realm and repel the invasion.
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The ammunition of the defenders of the bridge began to fail at this important crisis; messages, commanding and imploring succours and supplies, were in vain dispatched, one after the other, to the main body of the presbyterian army, which remained inactively drawn up on the open fields in the rear.
Old Mortality
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Once again, their performance offered little succour.
Times, Sunday Times
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You need a network of supporters and sympathisers prepared to hide and give succour, financial and otherwise for the cause.
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They hollaed amain to dogs and knight, and not a few advanced to succour the damsel: but the words of the knight, which were such as he had used to Nastagio, caused them to fall back, terror-stricken and lost in amazement.
The Decameron, Volume II
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There were no hopes of succour from the forces known to be in the vicinity; hence there was no alternative but surrender or starvation.
Foreign and Colonial News
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Hawker's published version accords him a heroic role in retrieving and burying all the Caledonia's dead and succouring her one survivor.
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But whoever assumes this role, their supporters can at least derive succour from the infinite spirit of the Highlanders.
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It also dwells on the doctor-patient relationship, tragic situations in the life of patients and how as a medical professional with great concern for his fellow beings, he has tried to bring relief and succour to them.
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Recent Ashes history offers him some succour in that regard.
Times, Sunday Times
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On Hampstead Heath the Corporation of London is considering the closure of the open-air bathing ponds which have succoured swimmers, amputees and mild exhibitionists since the 1860s.
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It is not acceptable for a Nato member to offer succour to our enemies.
Times, Sunday Times
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If any wayfarying man shuld espy a man sette vppon with thieues, or otherwyse to be wronged, and dyd not to his power succour and ayde hym, he was gyltie of death.
The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie
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He speedily succors us with the aid of consolation, assuages the rising pangs of temptations, and calms with inward peace the emotions of the thoughts which rise up against Him.
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Church's bounty; but in any case the gift was sweetened by the giver's hand, and the succour was the impartation of a woman's sympathy more than the bestowment of a donor's gift.
Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V)
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[4365] Hollerius knew one cured alone with the use of succory boiled, and drunk for five months, every morning in the summer.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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When our dogs get ill, we have to fit visits to the vet and bouts of succour around the working day.
Times, Sunday Times
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Recent Ashes history offers him some succour in that regard.
Times, Sunday Times
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Her organization gave succour and strength to those who had been emotionally damaged.
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So many intricacies, so many labyrinths, are there in them, that the succours of reason fail, the very force and spirit of it being lost in an actual intention scattered upon several clashing objects at once; in which case, the interposal of a friend is like the supply of a fresh party to a besieged yielding city.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. I.
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It gives succour, comfort and aid to the perpetrators of evil and insults the good, the innocent and all the victims of crime.
The Sun
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Some occupations seem to go out of their way to discourage mutual aid and succour.
Coping with Stress at Work
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But I suspect, some days, that beauty helps protect the spirit of mankind, swaddle it and succor it, so that we might survive.
CONFESSIONS OF AN UGLY STEPSISTER
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He who in adversity would have succor, let him be generous while he rests secure.
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Helleboratus major and minor in Quercetan, and Syrupus Genistae for hypochondriacal melancholy in the same author, compound syrup of succory, of fumitory, polypody, &c.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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John goes thither and has sought till he found her, and he imparts to her how greatly he desires her to come; never let any excuse detain her; for Fenice and Cliges summon her to a tower where they await her; for Fenice is sore mishandled, and she must come provided with salves and electuaries, and let her know that the lady will live no longer if she succour her not speedily.
Cligés. English
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A major initiative aimed at supporting and succouring rural Yorkshire communities devastated by foot-and-mouth is to be launched by the Church of England.
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Any Haitian or Bahamian who harbours, employs, abets, or succors illegals, gets a fine and jail.
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Somehow he reached the succouring hand and clung to it like a drowning man, mumbling the while, "Sorry to intrude upon you, but one of your sons" -- again the name eluded him -- "has broken his arm, and he's in my aunt's cottage.
The Ffolliots of Redmarley
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Why do we give succour - and money - to those who would destroy what we stand for?
Times, Sunday Times
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Jewish tradition provided our Prophet with sanctuary and succour.
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And because the spleen and blood are often misaffected in melancholy, I may not omit endive, succory, dandelion, fumitory,
Anatomy of Melancholy
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We are aware that through a time of increasing food deprivation a number of individual churches have run much needed feeding schemes, and provided succour and support for AIDS victims.
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But what of the more serious accusation - that he is, if not a parlour anti-Semite, certainly a writer who has given them succour?
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He who in adversity would have succor, let him be generous while he rests secure.
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At first they were protected by Catholic rulers, and seen as penitents entitled to alms and succour.
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Hanging as it were upon that wondrous power to help which dwelt within her -- her simple goodness -- may we not say that the Fairies discover an ENFORCED attraction, when they afterwards approach the maiden for their own succour and salvation; as they do, a FREE attraction, when, in the person of Swanhilda, they disinterestedly attach themselves to reforming a fault for the welfare and happiness of her whom it aggrieves?
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844
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One of the regrets of my incumbency, probably, should be that I have not given as much comfort and succour as I could have done, to all the local hostelries, taverns, or pubs.
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One is the valley to which we are now bending our steps, which nestles not far from the foot of the great mountain men call the St. Bernard; the other is at the hospice upon the Great St. Bernard itself, where is a colony of devout and kindly monks, who give their succour to travellers of every nationality and creed, and where a safe shelter may always be found.
Tom Tufton's Travels
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She is the first who has redeemed the name of "sutler" from the suspicion of worthlessness, mercenary baseness, and plunder; and I trust that England will not forget one who nursed her sick, who sought out her wounded to aid and succour them, and who performed the last offices for some of her illustrious dead.
Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands
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You are right that the ideologues probably form a distinct sample from the merely prejudiced precisely because they have already had exposure and have rejected the disconfirming evidence (this might suggest that they became ideologues because their prejudice was threatened and they needed a coherent means to support it, possibly because abandoning it would undermine some other form of benefit, maybe psychological succor or group standing?)
Matthew Yglesias » Neighborhood Diversity
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Threatened groups bring in wives from outside and thus establish important social links promising external support and succour.
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One part succory with artemisia and periwinkle flowers placed as aforesaid is strong against incantations and against assassins and gives security from them, and if with this is placed the tooth of a wolf it protects also from robbers and thieves.
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One handy way of looking at the two lists is that many of the people on the former influenced millions of Americans to seek succor from the pharmaceuticals on the latter.
Top 25 Psychiatric Medicines List Released
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His role, as he sees it, is simple: he's there to ease our passing, to provide momentary succour to our loved ones in a time of grief.
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A building can be economical and efficient, and have the traditional values of architecture like placedness, psychological succour, urbanity and so on.
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Do we have to face the shame of the rest of the world organising a charity campaign to bring succour to the starving of Spain?
DOVES OF WAR: Four Women of Spain
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He who in adversity would have succor, let him be generous while he rests secure.
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a colony of Saracens whom his father had planted in Apulia; and this odious succor will explain the defiance of the Catholic hero, who rejected all terms of accommodation.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
